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METRO VANCOUVER -- A handful of mourners visited a Langley funeral home Friday afternoon for a private family viewing of slain gangster Jonathan Bacon.

Among the first to arrive when the viewing began about 1 p.m. were Bacon’s parents, Susan and David, who were escorted inside the Henderson Funeral Home by ushers.

It was the first time the couple had been seen in public since their eldest son was gunned down outside a Kelowna hotel and casino on Sunday, Aug. 14.

Four others in a vehicle with Bacon, including full-patch Hells Angel Larry Amero and Independent Soldier James Riach, were wounded. A young woman whose uncle is the president of the Haney HA chapter was shot in the neck and paralyzed. Another woman is expected to fully recover.

Investigators are still working to determine if Bacon, a leader of the Red Scorpion gang, was targeted, or if the masked assassins were after others in the Porsche Cayenne.

Bacon, Amero and Riach had formed a loose criminal alliance dubbed the Wolf Pack before the shooting. Riach was captured on media cameras leaving Sunday’s crime scene and has not been located by police.

Outside the Langley funeral home on Fraser Highway, unmarked police cars and cruisers passed several times in the hours before the event began. Several members of the uniformed Gang Task Force stood behind the building throughout the viewing.

Sgt. Shinder Kirk, of the task force, said afterwards that police were just there to keep a watchful eye and maintained a respectful distance from mourners, who totalled fewer than 30.

“It is a very emotional time for everyone involved and officers were present so anyone attending today’s event could do so in peace,” Kirk said.

Flowers arrived at the funeral home by mid-morning and several people walked in before noon, but left without spending much time inside.

Susan Bacon pulled up in a black sedan, followed by her husband David a few minutes later in a dark blue pickup truck.

No details of funeral arrangements have been made public, but it is expected to take place next week.

Kelowna RCMP major crime investigators continue to look for suspects, and law enforcement agencies throughout Metro Vancouver are gathering intelligence and attempting to diffuse tensions to prevent retaliation for the shooting.

Since Sunday, two people have been targeted in separate Surrey shootings. The first man, who was an associate of slain gangster Gurmit Dhak, sustained minor injuries from flying glass when he was shot Monday night in the 10100-block of 153rd. He has since left the province.

Police said there was no apparent link to the Bacon murder, but that investigators would consider all possibilities.

Then on Wednesday night, a man was shot in the abdomen by a masked gunman outside a residence in the 8200-block of 150th St.

Neither he nor any of the others present were known to police.

In Bacon’s old hometown of Abbotsford, gang investigators are being “hyper-vigilant” in the aftermath of the Bacon shooting, Det. Andrew Wooding of the Abbotsford police gang suppression unit said Friday.

“We are staying in close touch with our sources,” Wooding said. “We are being hyper-vigilant about groups congregating even to socialize. We will keep people moving.”

He said there is a lot of buzz on the streets about the slaying of the notorious brother. But the family’s link to Abbotsford is lesser now that parents moved away several months ago and Bacon’s younger brothers Jarrod and Jamie are both in jail awaiting trial in different cases.

“Jarrod and Jamie were more the face of the Bacons in Abbotsford,” Wooding said. “Jon was much more behind the scenes.”

Mourners pay a visit to Red Scorpion gangster Jonathan Bacon at funeral home

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